Can’t always get what you want

Day 9 sept 13

Rain and Hail

Even with fresh oats and coffee in our guts, we were all over the place on how to proceed. Stop today and avoid two more days of rain rides? We checked six different weather apps and none could agree.

The decision was made to push on since rain seemed to be the only consistent element of this year’s ride.

In full rain gear we left Cuba joyfully only to determine after a mile we had set out in the wrong direction.

Once again we set out from Cuba with slightly less joy as it had already started raining.

Jeff , today’s driver, gave one of our biking friends a lift 40 miles towards Albuquerque in search of a bike shop.

After lunch the sun came out.

But more dark clouds came along to entertain us with dime size hail. All we really wanted was a sixty mile ride without having to put on a raincoat. It seems it’s true, you can’t always get what you want!

Dark Skies

Hail on Dale

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